To set up a Medical Ombudsman for Queensland?  The Minister is ill-informed.  Queensland already has a Health Quality & Complaints Commission and it is useless.  What will a medical ombudsman do that the HQCC does not and will not do?  Pushing patients into a merry-go-round of bureaucratic departments with no one willing to hold medicos to account.

Queensland medical board must be sacked: Springborg | 18 April 2013

QUEENSLAND’S government wants to sack the entire state board of the Medical Board of Australia (MBA).

Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has tabled reports in parliament this week showing endemic problems with the State’s handling of medical complaints.

He said the public wasn’t properly protected from doctors who pose a risk of harm and he will set up a new medical ombudsman for the State.

Mr Springborg has written to 10 members of the Queensland board of the MBA, giving them 14 days to show why their positions are still tenable.

“It’s highly likely that their position is certainly untenable in my view,” he told ABC radio today. “That’s why I’ve taken this extraordinary course of action.”